The 22-week project, announced last July, saw 4,870 engineered materials arresting system (EMAS) blocks installed at Queenstown, increasing its effective runway end safety area from 90 to 240 metres.
According to the ACCC’s latest Airport Monitoring Report, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth airports collectively invested $985.1 million in aeronautical facilities in 2023–24, more than half of which was accounted for by Melbourne’s $502.3 million…